Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's back to school for millions of college students across the country. But one unintended consequence of those returning ...

In fewer than two years, the University of Michigan’s Lab Swap Shop in Ann Arbor has surpassed $1 million in savings for researchers, giving new life to surplus laboratory equipment […] ...

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Shop ’til you swap. When Shannon Hughes saw the piles of discarded dorm-room furnishings that her fellow New School students ditched at the end of every school year, she always felt there had to be a ...

GILBERT, AZ — Joe Anderson is perusing the shelves of the Gilbert Swap Shop, located inside the town’s Household Hazardous Waste Facility. He finds something he needs and thanks the employees inside, ...